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Year : 2013 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 232-234 |
Native valve Escherichia coli endocarditis following urosepsis
D Rangarajan1, S Ramakrishnan1, KC Patro1, S Devaraj1, V Krishnamurthy2, Y Kothari3, N Satyaki4
1 Department of Nephrology, NU Trust, Bangalore, India 2 Department of Urology, NU Trust, Bangalore, India 3 Department of Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, India 4 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, India
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S Ramakrishnan C.A. 6, 11th Cross, 15th Main, Padmanabha Nagar, Bangalore - 560 070 India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-4065.111866
Gram-negative organisms are a rare cause of infective endocarditis. Escherichia coli, the most common cause of urinary tract infection and gram-negative septicemia involves endocardium rarely. In this case report, we describe infection of native mitral valve by E. coli following septicemia of urinary tract origin in a diabetic male; subsequently, he required prosthetic tissue valve replacement indicated by persistent sepsis and congestive cardiac failure.
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